Lawrence Bragg

William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890-1 July 1971) was an Australian-British physicist, the son of William Henry Bragg, and the co-recipient (along with his father) of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 for analyzing the structure of crystals by use of the X-ray.

Biography
William Lawrence Bragg was born in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia in 1890, the son of William Henry Bragg. She graduated from St. Peter's College, Adelaide in 1908, and the family moved to Leeds, England that same year. In 1915, father and son used the X-ray to analyze the structure of crystals through use of diffraction, earning them the Nobel Prize in Physics. From 1919 to 1937, Bragg worked at the Victoria University of Manchester as a physics professor, and he worked at the University of Cambridge from 1938 to 1954 and the Royal Institution from 1954 until his death in 1971. He was knighted in 1941.